And it was live on the CS code plugin store for under an hour. It’s impressive to ensnare the operators of the platforms (plural) in such a small window.
It's because so much of corporate security is based on whether a user trusts a piece of code in an environment where they've gotten used to trusting new pieces of code. At my job, so many things ask for the one password that protects my full account that I wouldn't be surprised if someone sneaks in something that both legitimately uses it to log in to something but also saves the user/pass combo and it would likely succeed completely at getting a bunch of credentials.
Local Privilege Escalation - i.e. someone who is already a non-admin user (whether through other hacks or normally) on your computer getting admin privileges.
I wonder who made the list of "don't touch these repos, they're propping up our proprietary software sans attribution" for the LLM injectabots to avoid.
I realize that the end game here is SUPPOSED to be "erode all trust in free software" but the ineptitude of those profiting off of proprietary software is such that they WILL fuck this up in such a way that it hurts themselves too, it's just a matter of when.
The way I'm reading the article, this is mostly a Github thing:
The malware allows TeamPCP’s hackers to steal credentials (on github) that let them publish malicious versions of those software development tools, too (on github). The cycle repeats, and TeamPCP’s collection of breached networks grows.
They're paid bad actors by oligarchs to force us to then turn to paid, proprietary software subscriptions endlessly while they build their dream surveillance world
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MightEnlightenYou@lemmy.world · 85 pts · 85d
Lol, the "big news" is an infected VScode extension with 4k users stealing 3k github credentials...
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 29 pts · 85d
The one Microsoft itself fell victim to recently, with their faltering github platform?
paraphrand@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 85d
And it was live on the CS code plugin store for under an hour. It’s impressive to ensnare the operators of the platforms (plural) in such a small window.
Buddahriffic@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 83d
It's because so much of corporate security is based on whether a user trusts a piece of code in an environment where they've gotten used to trusting new pieces of code. At my job, so many things ask for the one password that protects my full account that I wouldn't be surprised if someone sneaks in something that both legitimately uses it to log in to something but also saves the user/pass combo and it would likely succeed completely at getting a bunch of credentials.
technocrit@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 6 pts · 83d
Yeah, clickbait headline is sus AF.
etherphon@piefed.world · 45 pts · 85d
oyenyaaow@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 84d
xz utils backdoor would have been carnage though. it almost succeeded too.
panda_abyss@lemmy.ca · 7 pts · 85d
For what it’s worth, we are living close to the movie Hackers, complete with turning tankers upside down and a new RCE/LPE a day lately.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 7 pts · 85d
RCE is remote code execution; what is LPE?
LPThinker@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 85d
Local Privilege Escalation - i.e. someone who is already a non-admin user (whether through other hacks or normally) on your computer getting admin privileges.
luciferofastora@feddit.org · 5 pts · 85d
FFS, I should have known that. I literally did that as an exam in one of my IT Security classes.
etherphon@piefed.world · 1 pts · 85d
Kiernian@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 85d
I wonder who made the list of "don't touch these repos, they're propping up our proprietary software sans attribution" for the LLM injectabots to avoid.
I realize that the end game here is SUPPOSED to be "erode all trust in free software" but the ineptitude of those profiting off of proprietary software is such that they WILL fuck this up in such a way that it hurts themselves too, it's just a matter of when.
Juan_de_Silentio@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 85d
BarneyPiccolo@lemmings.world · 2 pts · 83d
When you go to war with the entire world, you make enemies you don't even know about.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 12 pts · 85d
The way I'm reading the article, this is mostly a Github thing:
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 11 pts · 84d
Why?
NGC2346@sh.itjust.works · 31 pts · 83d
They're paid bad actors by oligarchs to force us to then turn to paid, proprietary software subscriptions endlessly while they build their dream surveillance world
DudeImMacGyver@kbin.earth · 8 pts · 83d
Yeah, that scans...
Hoohoo@fedia.io · 3 pts · 85d
Uh, oh!